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...first encouraged bacteria to produce poisons to wipe out other bacteria. Dubos' early antibiotics proved of limited value, but his theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added to man's knowledge of the tissues which make up the human body...
...construction. This in practice, came about by constructing the interior of the library in uniform units of space, 18-feet by 24-feet, and bounded at the four corners by supporting columns. These dimensions were chosen because of their suitability for the open stacks, and seminar, office and carrel arrangements...
...carrel system is one of the library's most unusual end controversial features. Some 494 of them--500 were planned, but 6 got lost in the construction shuffie--are located through the acre and one-half of stack area on each of the three lower floors and the two above the main level...
...reality a private study adjacent to a particular field of learning, a carrel provides for the students to whom it is assigned a desk, bookshelves, a comfortable chair, and an adjustable desk light.This senior tries to stretch out in his single carrel...
...chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda water, newspapers and books-Alexis Carrel's Man the Unknown, a Bible, dictionaries, a French grammar, textbooks on shorthand, mechanics and mathematics. Scraps of paper bore such scribbled mottoes as: "It is better to be alone than in bad company...